La Paillade
Basic information
Sample name: La Paillade

Reference: J.-P. Aguilar. 1974. Les rongeurs du Miocène inférieur en Bas-Languedoc et les corrélations entre échelles stratigraphiques marine et continentale. Geobios 7(4):345-398 [ER 2383]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 43° 38' N, 3° 49' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Early Miocene

Zone: MN2a

Ma: 21.5

Geography comments: coordinate based on Mosson, which includes La Paillade
Aquitanian, younger than Paulhiac and older than Laugnac
possibly MN 2a sensu Hugueney and Ringeade (1989) and therefore roughly 21.5 Ma

Environment
Substrate: ground surface

Lithology: marl

Habitat comments: the micromammals are from unit 3 ("Marnes blanches á débris de coquilles") and 4 ("Marnes noires et verdãtres á... débris de coquilles") in the local section (Capetta 1970)

Methods
Life forms: rodents

Sampling methods: screenwash

Sample size: 190 specimens

Sampling comments: collecting methods were "le lavage-tamisage et l'attaque á l'acide acétique dilué" according to Capetta (1970)
Plesiosminthus myarion and Steneofiber viciacensis are listed in a table but not described or actually discussed anywhere
additional taxa are not discussed

Metadata
Sample number: 2563

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2017-02-16 17:58:30

Modified: 2017-02-17 02:55:45

Abundance distribution
7 species
1 singleton
total count 190
geometric series index: 9.3
Fisher's α: 1.429
geometric series k: 0.4707
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6454
Shannon's H: 1.2738
Good's u: 0.9947
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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